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THE BOX BEING INSIDE LOOKING OUTSIDE: AN ASHTANGA STORY by Norman Blair I would like to present this piece in the spirit of compassion,...

I was asked today whether if given the choice, if I would prefer that yoga classes not be named (Jivamukti, Dharma Mittra, Astanga, etc)....

Today I moved my belongings out of unit 123b Canalot Studios after a good two years of offering thai yoga massage, craniosacral therapy...

I’ve always been in awe of those yogis who have had their Gurus magically appear for them, showing up in all different forms at the right...

vi- to order; nyasa – conscious placement; krama – sequence with a beginning, middle and end Often when a yoga class is described as...

abhyasa-vairagyabhyam tan-nirodhah (PYS 1.12) Identification with the fluctuations of mind is stopped by practice and non-attachment. In...

Starting Saturday, May 14th, I will be teaching yoga every week on the lawn of Kensington Palace Gardens. There is nothing like...

FL: Helen, tell me a little bit about your background. HS: Well, I’m an ex headhunter – in fact, I headhunted headhunters. I did that job...

FL: How long have you been practicing yoga? RK: My very first class was at the Iyengar Yoga Institute South London in 1999, but I had an...

Suggestion is the underlying and fundamental cause of all mental phenomena…The whole universe is nothing but suggestion; the world lives...

Matthew Remski (one of the authors of ‘Yoga 2.0’) will be speaking/discussing on Tuesday 19 April 2.30pm at Globe House Yoga Studio (in...

Of course, there are loads of distractions that aren’t present in a studio setting- passersby, sticks underfoot, squishy ground…we’re no...

A couple of years ago I was going to an Iyengar class regularly at Alaric’s home studio, and there was a lovely woman there whom I never...

MK: I’ve been practising eleven years, and in 2006 I became a teacher. After practising for six years I felt the practice had given me...

Yogash chitta-vritti-nirodhah -PYS 1.2 This sutra is how Patanjali defines Yoga: when you cease to identify with your thoughts,...

Since I started working again after my pregnancy, I’ve been trying to find a balance between spending precious time with my son and doing...

After a day of being poked and prodded by nurses and dentists, afternoon arrived with a headache and a mouth full of white gook that is...

I’ve practiced on a lot of mats over the past 15 or so years, starting out on the basic sticky mat, moving on to an ecological Jute mat,...

I ran into Sally Parkes the other morning at Planet Organic where we were able to take a few minutes out and catch up. FL: I understand...

I knew Jules for a period of time while he was living in London in 2008. He used to come to my classes at the Jivamukti London Studio,...